Here are some scenes of our 10/24/02 trip to Lake Conestee, an impoundment of the Reedy Riverjust outside of Greenville, SC. Joining us was Dave Hargett, an environmental engineer and activist who, along with others, established the Conastee Foundation to convert the polluted lake and surrounding land into a park for environmental education and recreation.
 
These last two pictures are of a recently dead red-shouldered hawk that we found on the Lake Conestee island. What a majestic bird -- it disturbed us all. We found no bullet hole or any other obvious trauma and speculated that this may be evidence of West Nile virus. I also found the remains of another bird, most likely a tufted titmouse, a few hundred yards away.

I wrote a brief journal entry following an earlier visit to the lake in June, 2002.